New Orleans Brass Bands S/D

TBC live set on Offbeat's fb page:
https://www.facebook.com/offbeatmagazine/videos/1270215096676359/

My band finally got it together to put (almost) all of our albums on streaming services for the first time: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2tyjfI1efzg3PyHlS6mW1d?si=Ppa8Jb0uSlukV1GNQ97s5Q

Kinda wish I could have had a brass band at the funeral for my 90 year old Dad last week. He was always more a Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins guy though. He did always speak fondly of New Orleans and the trip he and my Mom took there, and taking a cab to Snug Harbor to see Mose Allison

Sorry to hear about your dad. My dad's take on jazz: "They're all just making this up as they go along, right?" That was a bug, not a feature, in his world.

When I was in my 20s my Dad sneered at the rock I was listening to, and said I didn’t like it then, I don’t like it now. But my Dad who grew up going to NYC jazz clubs in the late 1940s and 50s, ended up listening to and liking all kinds of stuff up until the day he died— Youssou NDour, Talking Heads, Eddie Palmieri and more. He and I would talk and email about them, and he loved going down YouTube rabbit holes ( although my Frank Sinatra loving Mom is/ was not quite as appreciative). I guess I am very lucky to have had that

He became a Rolling Stones fan too

https://www.feedthesecondline.org/

Thinking I may donate to these folks

After the success of Feed the Front Line NOLA, the Krewe of Red Beans has joined forces with Rouses Markets, Market Umbrella (operators of the Crescent City Farmers Market), the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic & Assistance Foundation, and the Preservation Hall Foundation to form Feed the Second Line.
Feed the Second Line seeks to provide food-love and employment to our culture-bearers: musicians, Mardi Gras Indians, Social Aid & Pleasure Club members, artists, and other cultural figures in the New Orleans community. We pair older, more vulnerable musicians and artists with their younger counterparts to assist them with shopping for their groceries and household needs. The benefits are two-fold: providing much needed groceries for free to the venerated culture-bearers of our great city, with contactless delivery to protect them from public exposure during the pandemic, while providing employment to the younger generation losing weeks, possibly months, of paying gigs.

https://vimeo.com/457795012

https://tipitinas.tv/?fbclid=IwAR2dOL9iM-suPRrWwt_QYd-P7QFRYFj5za0k-5i33pjM70NSPGOsCJG90pM

Tipitina's tv website and youtube page is showing Mardi Gras brass band doc now; also Sunday Feb 14 & on Mardi Gras

Sat, Feb 13, 2021 Streaming Schedule (All times in Central Standard Time):
10am / Bury The Hatchet
11:27am / Donald Harrison
11:30am / Bayou Maharajah (James Booker)
1:08pm / Henry Butler (2001)
1:30pm / American Patchwork: Jazz Parades (“Feet Don’t Fail Me Now”)
2:28pm / Tipitina’s TV Exclusive
2:30pm / The Promised Land: A Swamp Pop Journey
3:47pm / Bruce Daigrepont (2004)
4pm / Never A Dull Moment: 20 Years of the Rebirth Brass Band
5:30pm / Dr. John (2004)
6pm / Bury The Hatchet
7:27pm / Donald Harrison
7:30pm / Bayou Maharajah (James Booker)
9:08pm / Henry Butler (2001)
9:30pm / American Patchwork: Jazz Parades (“Feet Don’t Fail Me Now”)
10:28pm / Tipitina’s TV Exclusive
10:30pm / The Promised Land: A Swamp Pop Journey
11:47pm / Bruce Daigrepont (2004)
12am / Never A Dull Moment: 20 Years of the Rebirth Brass Band
1:30am / Dr. John (2004)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwflNeY0HPM...

Thanks for the heads up!

https://www.nola.com/gambit/film/article_1cdae2d0-6a44-11eb-a0b1-a337d5e58660.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twittergambit&utm_campaign=snd&fbclid=IwAR3X5CGay0G2lN8gO_KcXhm1-gFEcdaP9tUqis0iGXO7CgdKoJHZWAvSw38

Some great old school brass band and second line footage earlier

More docs today Sunday

The Tipitina's virtual film festival continues today with the following lineup, which starts at 11am central and then repeats at 5:30pm.
11am Buckjumping
12:07pm Anders Osborne (2020)
12:30pm All On A Mardi Gras Day
1:30pm Treme Brass Band (2006)
2pm Tuba To Cuba
3:24pm Tipitina’s.TV Exclusive: Float Houses!
3:30pm Up From The Streets: New Orleans: The City of Music
5:14pm The Wild Magnolias (2004)
5:30pm Buckjumping
6:37pm Anders Osborne (2020)
7pm All On A Mardi Gras Day
8pm Treme Brass Band (2006)
8:30pm Tuba To Cuba
9:54pm Tipitina’s.TV Exclusive: Float Houses!
10pm Up From The Streets: New Orleans: The City of Music
11:44pm The Wild Magnolias (2004)

Buckjumping is really good, even if there's very brass band content to speak of (they use studio records over the second line footage for some reason). Good slice-of-live interviews & footage (w/out narration) of Mardi Gras Indian practice, marching bands, bounce nights, etc.

Thanks so much for the heads-up re: the Tipitina's doc fest!
I just passed the link on to my dad, since him and I have been to both New Orleans and Havana together and I figured he'd especially get a lot out of it.

They are showing some of the docs again on Tuesday the 16th. I saw some of all of Bury the Hatchet, Feet Don’t Fail Me Now, the Rebirth doc, All on a Mardi Gras Day, & Tuna to Cuba and have enjoyed and learned a lot.

Have previously seen the James Booker Bayou Maharajah one, and Up from the Streets. Both worth seeing

I've seen the James Booker & Rebirth docs, both good. Would like to catch that Treme Brass Band one.

Sometimes get curious about old school network news and just saw on NBC News a short closing story about people decorating their homes as floats this year with Mardi Gras parades cancelled. Lester Holt didn’t say their name, but that was Treme Brass playing outside someone’s home .

I saw a bit of the Treme doc but not all.

my old neighbor did her house up real big. nightmare person but admire the effort:

https://i.imgur.com/GtaRtxj.jpg

watching bury the hatchet now, really good, thanks for the tip on this. looking forward to leaving it on all day

Haha xp

Happy Mardi Gras, I'm doing a livestream with a New Orleans jazz group tonight (the first one I've done this whole time) - https://www.facebook.com/events/417556152682606/

This year the organization has announced the creation of “The Wolf Fund,” in honor of the recent loss of the community’s late and beloved Keith “Wolf” Anderson, to to address the financial need to find a final resting place for our musicians. The Save Our Brass Foundation is committed to raising funds to insure musicians’ families do not bare the financial burden during their time of loss.

Tickets also benefit classes that teach the youth of the community how to play brass instruments.

The livestreamed event will take place March 13 via Facebook (see below for the full roster and line-up

March 13 with Big 6, Pinettes, Mama Digdown video and more

https://www.offbeat.com/news/shamarr-allen-erica-falls-more-to-perform-in-save-our-brass-event/

https://fb.me/e/46HzZMLt4

NOLA Brass Fest is virtual this year:

https://www.whereyat.com/second-line-at-home-for-this-years-brass-fest
https://www.facebook.com/events/801239793764081
https://events.com/r/en_US/tickets/new-orleans-original-brass-fest-800497

$5 :)

Should be some good live performances, and we're submitting a video from when we played Tipitina's almost exactly a year ago, with music from the album of Michael Jackson arrangements that we're *finally* actually finishing (after a decade, lol).

It's a great organization to support btw

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/60-minutes-to-profile-st-augustine-marching-100-band-on-sundays-broadcast/289-364bf439-4b9d-4e0c-af68-041db2e351c7

St Augustine High in New Orleans Marching 100 band will be on CBS 60 Minutes Sunday March 14 at 7 et

Brass Fest happening now:
https://www.facebook.com/saveourbrassfoundation/videos/263377655319746

Thanks, send some $ too

I sent some I mean

Updated link, hot set now 🔥: https://www.facebook.com/saveourbrassfoundation/
https://www.facebook.com/saveourbrassfoundation/videos/461030215018700

Sporty’s Brass Band

https://secondlines.com/

Big 6 strong too, of course

Mama Digdown getting love from the emcee for their smokin performances. Nice video ( plus predictable calls to show me your cheese Wisconsin)

I hadn't seen the video until it aired, I got emo seeing all that footage from last year.

Loved the Sporty's and Big 6 sets, I was dancing in my kitchen all day.

(the less said about some of the others, the better, lol)

Agree

NBC tv news story tonight: New Orleans Black community reeling from Covid

17 members of the Zulus died during the pandemic . So many Black New Orleans Covid deaths

https://www.offbeat.com/news/pbs-frontline-series-focuses-on-new-orleans-funeral-traditions-impacted-by-covid

Dvr’ing that, .

In more upbeat news , saw a video clip on twitter of Big 6 playing on a porch in the evening sounding great. An Offbeat mag tweet

https://www.nola.com/news/article_2015a954-90bd-11eb-819c-d363b523d93e.html

RIP

Keelian Boyd Sr., an artist and celebrated big chief of the Young Maasai Hunters, died Sunday of heart failure at the Ochsner Health Center in Chalmette. He was 37.

Boyd, a crane operator at Domino Sugar in Arabi, launched the Young Maasai Hunters tribe in 2018, emerging on Mardi Gras morning in a stunning purple suit with two perfectly suspended wings extending from the side of his crown. Before that he had been mostly behind the scenes in the Black masking Indian culture, also known as Mardi Gras Indians, as a "hook-up man," basically an advisor called in at clutch moments to help other Indians finish their suits

21st Century Brass Band released an album and it's hard:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3AmfQNsRiPdzMCLrrdEC6Z?si=5ygm98xDSlaqMHMnUrhEaQ

Also 'I Wanna Go Back Outside' must be the first brass band tune about the pandemic

"I Wanna Go Back Outside" by 21st Century Brass sounds good. Will check out the rest.

Not always crazy about Offbeat Magazine, but sometimes it has provided good coverage. They have a go fund me going

We are closing our Frenchmen Street office, where we've been located since 1998, because we can no longer afford the rent in this location. We are having to get rid of decades' worth of OffBeat Magazine copies, photos, posters, books and more so we can move to a smaller location within the New Orleans Jazz Museum at 400 Esplanade Avenue (located in the Old U.S. Mint). We need your help more than ever!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-offbeat-magazine

offbeat is brutally corny but i love the tireless/guileless energy that leads them to run like 1000 word reviews of some papa grows funk cd called "red beans and fais do do: live on dumaine st"

i will probably give them some money just for providing me free reading material for bus and streetcar rides for 15 years

In my early days of going to Jazzfest, pre-internet, you didn't know stages and times for acts until you hit town and picked up an Offbeat, so for providing me those few moments of joyous scribbling and highlighting they will always be a great memory.

WWOZ is doing a jazz fest in place through the weekend

More sad news . Via a Ned Sublette email:

Terry Gibson, Jr., trumpeter with Sporty's Brass Band in New Orleans, died suddenly on the night of April 12 at the age of 29.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/terry-gibson-jr-home-going

https://www.offbeat.com/news/young-trumpeter-terry-gibson-jr-passes-awayterry-gibson-1991-2021/

Obit names all the bands Gibson was in , talks about his European gigs, and a brief mention of his backing Beyonce on a trip she made to New Orleans

https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-new-doc-shines-a-loving-light-on-the-new-orleans-jazz-funeral?fbclid=IwAR1FFRon3dUOuB8JkP_St4254YdxldlM2psCAnC5QmWMbm26_GsNHcOuQ0U

article by someone unfamiliar with brass bands on new movie doc by writer Jason Berry on New Orleans and brass called City of a Million Dreams . I heard Berry speak once. Impressive guy

In 2018 Berry released a book with that title. Now comes the movie doc

Satchmo SummerFest from July 31 to August 1.

Jazzfest October 8 to 17th